Breaking Free: Martin Luther's Revolution
Tom Service explores where the idea of communal singing, especially in religious contexts, came from in modern Europe. With Bach scholar John Butt and the Rev Lucy Winkett.
As part of Radio 3's Breaking Free: Martin Luther's Revolution, The Listening Service asks where the idea of communal singing, especially in religious contexts, came from in modern Europe. It seems natural to us today but the practice of congregational singing was once a radical, revolutionary idea that brought religion and politics together. And - what do the football chants heard on the terraces share with the hymns we sing in church? Tom talks to Bach scholar John Butt and the Reverend Lucy Winkett to find some answers. Rethink music with The Listening Service.
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Our love of noisy communal singsongs has its origins in 16th century Germany.
Breaking Free β Martin Luther's Revolution
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3's exploration of the Reformation and its consequences.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Mein Freund ist mein! (Cantata No 140)
Performer: Anthony Robson. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Singer: Ruth Holten. Singer: Stephen Varcoe. Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists.- J.S. Bach: Kantaten BWV 140 and 147.
- Archiv Produktion.
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Chelsea F.C.
Blue is the Colour
Performer: Chelsea F.C..- The Best Footie Anthems In The World... Ever!.
- Virgin.
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Edward Elgar
Pomp and Circumstance March No 1 'Land of Hope and Glory'
Performer: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra. Performer: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Chorus. Performer: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Singers. Performer: Sir Andrew Davis.- TELDEC.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 9 - Last Mvt
Performer: Leonard Bernstein. Performer: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Performer: Staatskapelle Dresden. Performer: Orchestra of the Kirov Theatre. Performer: St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra. Performer: London Symphony Orchestra. Performer: New York Philharmonic. Performer: Orchestre de Paris β Philharmonie. Performer: Bavarian Radio Symphony Choir. Performer: Dresden Philharmonic Children's Chorus.- DG.
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Unknown
God Save the Queen
Performer: Football Fans. -
Rodgers and Hammerstein
You'll Never Walk Alone (from Carousel)
Performer: Members of the Original New York Production.- Carousel - Original Cast.
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Martin Luther
Ein feste burg ist unser Gott
Performer: Manuel Helmeke.- Luther Collage.
- CARUS.
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Martin Luther
Komm Heiliger Geist
Performer: Unknown. -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Christ lag in Todesbanden BWV 4
Performer: Monteverdi Choir. Performer: English Baroque Soloists. Performer: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.- Bach Cantatas Volume 22.
- SDG.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Kommt, ihr Tochter, helft mir klagen from Matthew Passion BWV.244
Performer: Dunedin Consort & Players. Performer: John Butt.- LINN.
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Simon May
Eastenders Theme (2009 Version)
- Favourite TV Themes.
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ALISON BECK
Cantillation Tone
Performer: Lucy Winkett. Performer: Adam Gray.- RECORDING GIVEN WITH PERMISSION OF MUSICICANS.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Herr, unser Herrscher (St John Passion, BWV 245)
Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.- Archiv.
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Rev. C.J. Johnson
I Wanna Go Where Jesus Is
Performer: Rev. C.J. Johnson.- Wade In The Water, Vol. 2: African American Congregational Singing.
- Smithsonian Folkways.
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Hubert Parry
Jerusalem
Orchestrator: Edward Elgar. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis. Choir: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Singers. Choir: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Chorus and Orchestra.- TELDEC.
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Rodgers and Hammerstein
You'll Never Walk Alone
Performer: Football Fans at Anfield.
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